Venus mission ready for blast off

Europe is poised to send a spacecraft to Venus, our closest planetary neighbour and a hothouse world that has been described as Earth's "evil twin". Venus Express will blast off aboard a Russian rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 26 October. It will slip into orbit around Venus next year, using science instruments to study the planet from space.

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